Reply #68: No, I don't have any documents that Blanco excluded

[rateyes]

NOLA in any request. Quite the contrary. What is happening here though is the full time-line of declarations, requests, and responses. Your post confused me, too, when I clicked on your link because it was different from what I had read at the LA government press release site.

Timeline. August 26: Blanco declares state of emergency including
all parishes.
August 27: Blanco requests Bush do the same.
August 27: Bush follows suit, but EXCLUDES NOLA, and
all coastal areas. (Therefore Brownie lied
when he said Blanco excluded them--Bush did.)
August 28: Blanco requests Bush declare DISASTER
for all parishes(documented by your link)
not "state of emergency."
August 29: Katrina hits: Bush declares disaster for all
parishes.

I refer you to the following post I made after sorting this out after reading your post. I am with you. Brownie lied, and we can prove it. But, we are mixing the "disaster" declaration and the "state of emergency" declarations. This post has all the links showing the above timeline.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2118943&mesg_id=2118943